Temu everlasting pencil test (not sponsored) 

"Here's your everlasting pencil... And ten spare tips for when it runs out."

The body of these pens looks suspiciosly like LAMY fountaine pens that I used when I was in school. The little windows are where the ink cartridge would sit so you could see when you were running low.

So, basically they've invented the _inefficient_ mechanical pencil, where you have to replace the tip instead of just pressing a button to extend it.

There was a thing in the 1970's, called a 'Pop Pencil'. It was a tube containing a number of bullet like 'Cartridges' containing a pre sharpened pencil lead. When the current lead wore down, you simply pulled that 'cartridge' out, and inserted it into the end of the tube, and it pushed out the next lead ready for use. Colour pencil crayon versions were also available.

These pens are so infinite, that most listings come with a bunch of replacement tips.

Problem with these is that they don't mix with other colors nor do they shade properly. Artists prefer pencils which can be shaded and there's a white option.

Woooohooooo, your American viewers are going to be agog at the use of the word rubber 😂! Happy new year Big Clive and thank you for a full year's entertainment.

Pencel / pensel - a small pennon, originally one carried by a knight's squire =)

Why did Shakespeare use a quill? He couldn’t decide which pencil to use - 2B or not 2B!?

The “infinite pencil” with 10 replacement tips is just like the “guaranteed to fall asleep in 2 minutes” videos that are 10 hours long

Can you say "Burple purglar alarm"?

I laughed way more than I should have at "Burple".

I like how the Chinese product immediately corrected pencil to the chinglish spelling "pencel"

I like Pentel mechanical pencils. I have several which I bought back in the 1980s which still get daily use. I like the HB hardness graphite. The 0.5 and 0.7 mm thickness make pretty good lines, though I stick with 0.5 mm most of the time. I had a set of Staetler pencils which included 0.3 mm, but that was too thin for my ham hands, and I was always breaking the graphite.

Those tips remind me of the colouring toys I got sometimes in kindersurprise eggs in the 2010s. The real everlasting pen is a metal tip that does last a long time, these look more like the toys. They last longer than crayons and feel like plastic but do get used up relatively quickly.

I like using a Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil because it has a little one way clutch in the tip that rotates the lead as you write so it wears evenly. I've never had issue with any other normal mechanical pencils tip wearing unevenly so I am not sure it really does anything but the geek in me just loves the over-engineered-mechanical-ness of it.

If they call it infinity pencil, it should not have any spare tips. LOL

Fun fact, if you attach some of those infinity nibs to a glove you can snap half of humanity out of existence.

You can buy 2MM lead pencils that you sharpen, and replace the leads fairly easily. it's basically the inside of a wooden pencil that you can use with a more comfortable grip and save trees while you're at it. You can also buy leads that give a darker line as well.

Many years ago, either pre or in the early days of propelling pencils, I used to have one that held about ten short lengths of "lead" each in its own plastic holder. On some versions, the top of the pencil had a removable sharpener so you could keep the tip pointy. When it became worn down too much, you either pulled or propelled (I can't remember which) out the plastic shroud to reveal the next one with it's fresh nib. At the time, it was a great leap forward, especially for those of us as rail enthusiasts.

As is often the case with these kinds of writing tools, the body is a clone of the classic Lamy Safari fountain pen… don’t they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

I had one last century that pushed the used bit out and stored spares inside. I prefer to use 4B pencils, nice and dark.

The irony of needing refills for an infinity pencil

Hi Clive! I just need to say that you are still one of my favourite tech youtubers to watch.

wait, how is this infinite? you can see that tip getting smaller!

Nice concept, but probably won't replace my nice metal tin of Caran D'ache colour pencils, nor my left-handed Stabilo Easygraphs soon.

"a pencil that you replace the inside" So a pen, great.

I thought it was going to be like the Forever Pen than The Action Lab covered about a year ago, but it seems a bit different to that.

I'm so glad you made this vid. I saw these on I think Amazon and the similarity to Lamy was driving me crazy.

Reminds me of watercolor pencils I had as a child. You could scribble some paint then wet it with a brush to smooth it out. Good memories 😊☯️🙏

I remember this idea (from the 60s?) in the form of a set of self-stacking small coloured pencils with plastic connectors.

Great video Clive. All we need now is a pencil that helps with your spelling. (PENCEL)

New band name “The bent pencils” thank you Clive the gift that keeps on giving. 😊

Clive I have to congratulate you on some rather imaginative spelling.

It's very impressive that the infinity pencil can change your spelling!

As an aside, SQN at Braddan have given me exemplary technical support on my third hand location mixer. What an amazing company, and so nice to see that they are still around to support a 1982 product.

This guy can make anything seem interesting.

You should check out the Sun-Star Metacil, which I think this is imitating. The Metacil's trick is that the lead is graphite bound with aluminum (powder sintered?) instead of the usual clay. It does indeed last forever, since the tip is quite hard and very little lead is laid down. A side effect is that the lines are extremely faint--it's like using a high hardness conventional pencil. After a week's use I retired the Metacil since the line was too light, bordering on illegible on a legal pad. I wonder whether the lead in yours is a conventional pencil lead, and hence the dark lines and bag of spares. If I recall, the Metacil tips had a threaded aluminum core (which screwed into the female threaded aluminum pencil body), where it looks like the threads in your tips are formed into the lead material itself?

I happened to buy such a pen, it works, and it's a novelty. Yet, this is the first time I see them multicolour. I myself prefer liners, rollers, and nib fountain pens, especially because you can refill them and continue using the pen you already like and got used to.

Huh, as a colored pencil enjoyer, this looks dope. I'll keep an eye out for these!

You might find they offer softer leads, like an H or HB. Normal #2 pencils are quite hard, and don't lay down a dark enough line. The "infinity" pencils I've seen are these tubes, with several pencils tips in a FIFO order. Once the tip got dull, you removed it from the front of the tube, pushed it in the back of the tube, which forced a new tip out the front...

There used to be a similar product available in the late 70's to mid 80's, but instead of screwing the leads in a the the tip. you took the worn out 'lead' out of the front of the 'pencil' and push it back into the base causing a fresh 'lead' to be pushed forward, you got around 20 tips in each pencil. Edit Just remembered what they were called, Pop-o-Points,

Apparently the "Temu" name is a contraction of Team Up. FWIW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

'Burple'. Thats a new colour Ive never heard of! 😁

I bought those to give them a go. There made of the same stuff as the Koi Knor solid color color pencils(wood less) they're alright

So what are the tips made out of? I thought an infinity pencil was supposed to be aluminium, but if there are colours, are they just different shapes of the same core material?

Misspelling "infinity pencel' seems very fitting

The coloured one is interesting. I kinda like it. I would try colouring with it !

Definitely ordering a couple of these for the kids. It will save having to carry full sets of colouring pencils on the ferry every time we travel on and off the rock. 🇮🇲👌🏻

"Ordinary Pencil" vs Temu's "Infinity Pencel" 😂

Ah, a novel way to get rid of hazardous waste… infinite pencil tips… I wonder if they are radioactive?

Clive I have one of these my wife bought me for Christmas if you look in the end you can see the mechanism pushes the ball out of the ink cartridge so this is definitely the body of an ink pen

It brings to mind directly 3D printing threads onto a screw instead of using a die. But with pencil leads instead of plastic. Interesting idea. Kind of curious how many times you can replace one lead before its threads wear out and it no longer stays in the pencil body.

The light blue wouldn't be a bad underline for the rough sketch that you go over in a darker pencil or straight to ink. That's if I still really did traditional, my M1 iPad Pro and iPad Mini have basically made traditional sketching moot for me. I do still work with ink (brushes and fountain pens, even that is replicated with pretty good accuracy digitally anymore, but I actually machine and make the pens myself so it's a double dip of a hobby), and the very light color of these would work if they were easily erased later on. If they stay around it's a different story since when using ink for color (or water color) I wouldn't really want draft lines visible unless that was the style intended.

OOOOOOOOOOHH PURPLE😲 I'll have to get a set, I'd like to see how they are for my artwork.

As Irving Finkel at the British Museum Assyriology dept explained in his video on rescuing diaries from being thrown out when people die, there is a sort of infinity in using pencils instead of the sticky goo inside modern biros, or ordinary ink that washes off: even when the graphite has rubbed off, the writing is still legible in the right light. It's pretty much the nearest thing we commonly have to clay tablets, which will still be perfectly legible thousands of years after all our digital knowledge has been lost. Personally my best writing implement is a .25 Staedtler Marsmatic Pen. Especially since I got an ultrasonic bath for when it hasn't been used for a while and I hit on the idea of buying some very fine stainless wire to pull through when the original tapered needle eventually falls off. I don't know how anybody writes with standard sized pens and pencils. I still have the first dip mapping pen with a nib that turns round when not in use. It cost a few pence when I was at school and still gives a perfect fine line, but, when not blocked, the Staedtler beats it on convenience when writing in bed. (Incidentally: the cardboard boxes that laptops come in, make the best laptop stands for working in bed. Stuff them with corrugated box cardboard for stiffness, and just stab holes with your pencils to stop them rolling off, and sticky velcro for holding your phone.

Someone's re-invented the Pop-A-Point Pencil from the 70's. Cute idea. Cheers!

That blue reminds me of my old non-repro blue pencils from drafting and layout back in College.

There was this pencil years ago with a similar claim. It was made out of some kind of metal (a slightly toxic one, so I didn't order one worrying I'll forget myself and chew on it), that would obviously wear out, but it would take a very long time. I do wonder if these ones (at least the black one) is the same, but made into a tip instead of a whole pencil

Looks like the everlasting pencils last about the same as a regular pencil, judging by how much material is lost by using it. If not less, given the awkward shape of the tip that will make it pretty hard to sharpen after a while.

oh! I was expecting something like a lithium rechargeable battery, high voltage circuit and it carbonising the paper with a mini arc or something. It is in fact, a crayon!

I gotta wonder what those tips are made of. Being from Temu, you might want to get your geiger counter

I did consider buying a different type of infinity pencil way before temu was a thing, I had two misgivings: 1: it was extremely hardness according to reviews, 2: lead. Yeah, it was just actual lead. Wonder what unmentioned content these heads have :D

You know it’s a good infinite pen when it comes with 10 replacements!

We used to get these as prizes for school carnivals and book fairs 30 years ago…

I remember when I was a kid, they were colored pencils with different colored tips in kind of a little plastic holder. The tube of the pencil was Halo and the idea was you would pull one color out of the bottom and shove it in the top pushing the next color out the bottom so you could write with it. Keep pulling one out the bottom and shoving it in the top until you get to the color you wanted. In reference to an Infiniti pencil though I think I prefer the old school automatic pencils that you would buy sticks of lead for and drop about 20 sticks in the top. Click the little button on the side or the top to advance the lead. Seems a whole lot easier to have almost unlimited pencil writing time versus screwing on little tips that are going to get dull pretty quick.

A pencil you can't sharpen? Bless you, Temu!

A natural born artist :D

If this was from America it would come with millions in marketing and a fifteen minute TED talk saying what a revolution it is.

They impregnate graphite/lead into the metal tips, they tend to wear out as fast as normal lead pencils for the price of pencils. The concern is if you break or sharpen the tip you will get significantly more wear than a normal pencil. The other concern is that the type of material used in this is unknown as far as my 'research' goes. I use mechanical pencils for the fine tip, does the job, going to stick with that really...

Those are Lamy Safari pen rip-offs

I tried a couple to use in a pen plotter (like it's the 80s), but I found that they absolutely do not like being used tip-down in the same position for all time. You just get a very feint line fading to nothing that way...

Tempted to get one but I think I’ll wait till they sell a combination with the infinity ruler.

That would be the perfect sketching pencil!

Pro tip: Every pencil is infinite if you lose them after a week or so.

The Design is from Lamy. A very popular german vendor for writing instruments.

Most people already mentioned mechanical pencils... I experimented a lot with different pencils, as I learned in Middle School I kinda have a very angry writing grip (callouses, even). Extra thick pencils are great. The first was a very dark green, circular, supposedly my grandmothers. Exceptional writing. My First Ticonderogas are the modern equivalent. .7 mm lead is good, .5 is thin and I tend to tear paper, .3 is impossible. The trick with mechanical pencils, is to get one with a solid barrel that's part of the tip. GraphGear is solid metal from grip to tip. The Twist Erase and drafting pencils also have a metal barrel. Some have metal-ish barrels that wiggle back and forth in the plastic, and others are straight plastic. Constant lead breaks ensue. 1.3mm mechanical pencils are really nice, but as the pencil failed, the lead would come out too fast, or not even stay. Broad strokes and, watching the pencil to rotate, give nice smooth fine lines. I've tried a 2mm pencil lead from the Dollar Tree, but it must've been something mislabeled or made wrong, the pencil lead was very hard and made faint lines.

I'm relieved to hear that you have "lead" in your long pink Temu pencil, Big Clive! 👍🤣

Probably mentioned below but, being a pedant, 'Pencel' isn't a word and I note you used the rubber (or 'Erasure' for our American friends 🙂) to turn 'Browne' into Brown near the end. Love and stuff Clive, nice video.

We need to do a side by side test to check cost per metre of writing. I do wonder if they're any more cost effective

We used to have Pop a Point pencils when I were a lad. In fact I still have mine in my black plastic British Thornton case, along with dividers and springbows.

Burple is my new favourite colour!

Happy Birthday Clive! Hope you have a great day

I was gifted a beautiful titanium bolt action pen and pencil set for Christmas the year before last and what I realised is that I don’t write anymore, the only time I use a pencil it’s a carpenters version and the only time I use a pen any old pen will do. The set is lovely to look at and use but I just would never need to carry either around with me.

The word we did not know we needed: "Burple"

Everything old is new again. Had the same thing in the 80’s except all the tips were inside the pencil. It inconvenient to cycle to another color since I had to shove one in after another till I found the color I wanted.

> It's everlasting, the tip will never run out in normal use But how am I supposed to use it for writing when it's completely blunted? > Like I said, the tip will never run out in normal use

Clive thanks again for a nice informative video. Just wondering if we will be seeing colourful reverse engineering schematics now that you have these to hand 😂😂😂

Such an old fashioned writing instrument, what a missed opportunity not including at least a LED illuminator.

As a kid there was the pop-a-point pencil.. thanks for the memories...☺

My grandfather was an architect who worked on paper his whole life. He always used Stabilo erasers. I borrowed one for school and it's very different from the cheap sandpaper type erasers - you coukd usually erase all marks without harming the paper.

I got a few of those some time back from Ali. I've stuck one in each car, since pens tend to quit working after a year or so in a car.

It's so funny that I was just drawing up a perfboard layout using a set of colored pencils from Dollar Tree when this video showed up on my feed. (I'm one of those weirdos who find it convenient to color code signal, power, and bias in hand drawn layouts...kinda like Clive does his reverse engineering, only in reverse.)

Do the tips break if you accidentally drop them on the floor?

Shame there wasn’t a pink tip then it could of been out with the pink in with the brown, Nice idea there Clive thanks for the demo 😊

I took a drafting course, I was taught that when drawing with a pencil, rotate the pencil as you draw/write so that one side does not go flat.

Awesome Video Big Clive 😊

When I was in school (1970s), there was something similar...a sharp graphite point in a plastic shell..the body of the pencil was filled with the sharpened bits...once it got dull, you pushed the dull one into the top of the pencil, which pushed a sharp one into place...very common in schools for a while...

Ah, the big Clive, Bob Ross crossover we never knew we needed......